Who Else Needs Motivation?

 

You maybe? Are you not sure how to motivate yourself? It is not hard to learn how to do it. Wikipedia states that “Motivation is the driving force by which humans achieve their goals.”

If you have set up your goals, you should not have a problem with self-motivation.  If you haven’t, then you may find yourself in a need for goal setting.Setting up goals is, in a way, crucial in life, they help us to move forward.  Once you have set up your lifetime goals, set up a plan of smaller goals for 25 years, 10 years, 5 years, 1 year, to a 6 month plan, and a 1 month plan of progressively smaller goals that should help you achieve lifetime goals.  Finally set up daily activities – priorities that will work towards your lifetime goals.

Tip: goals should be crystal clear. It is hard to get where you want if you don’t know what you want. Avoid ambiguous goals.

Sense of achievement of your goals should be enough to motivate you daily. You can also create a wish book, or a wall, that contains all the photos of all the things you want to achieve and experience in your life. Motivation comes from within, so make sure that you know what motivates you.

Your motivational thoughts should be your first thoughts when you wake up in the morning, throughout the day and your last thoughts before you fall asleep. Remember, you can pick your thoughts, so make sure you choose the right ones, the ones that are motivating you.A good technique is to bring your inner child back, and the wishes you had as child back into your own life. Children don’t know how to stop; they don’t stop until they get what they want. When babies learn how to walk, they don’t stop trying after they fell, they get up and try again.

That is motivation in itself.

If haven’t seen it yet, see the movie “World Fastest Indian” with Anthony Hopkins. In that movie the main character is chasing his dream for 25 years. Do you think he got it? Do you think he was not motivating himself? What he said in one dialog was, and still is, epic “If you don’t chase your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.”

How to motivate yourself:

1. Set up goals, make a wish book
2. Start and finish your day with your most motivating, positive, thoughts
3. Believe in your values, believe in yourself. Think of kangaroos, they can only move forward – that should be the way you are going in your life.

Action time. Revise your motivational skills. Motivation is a skill that can be learned. Use the tips above; make a list of motivation hot buttons and techniques that you will start to use from today.